December 18, 2003
The length of a spec is directly proportional to the size of the
committee that produced it, multiplied by the number of years spent on
the effort (which also increases with the size of the committee).
Michael Kay
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First working draft of XSL 1.1 has been published.Version 1.1 updates the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. For those unfamiliar, that's XSL-FO spec, XML vocabulary for expression formatting semantics for high-quality paginated presentation. I've
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December 17, 2003
This site was down yesterday for who-knows-how-much hours because some troubles with Apache httpd of my hoster. What's the most annoying I didn't managed to get in touch any customer service. Plain silence. I'm keep getting randomly scary and mysterious "Quota exceeded while writing "/var/spool/mail/oleg"" messages, mysterious because I've got
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Chris Lovett's internal Microsoft presentation of X# language project (Oct 2002) has leaked - download it here (via jayson knight). Well, the project is dead. Probably that's good, because it really sounds like monstrous deadly mix of XSD/XSLT/XQuery/SQL and C#. But still really interesting and I strongly believe it's based
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December 16, 2003
And here is another beast for XML bestiary I've created a year ago, but forgot to publish. I'm not sure may be someone did that already, the idea and implementation are really trivial. It's XmlNodeNavigator, which is XPathNavigator over XmlNode (as a subtree) in XmlDocument. It allows to navigate over
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December 14, 2003
Well, here is a small basic example how to generate WordprocessingML documents basing on templates. Saying "template" I don't mean regular *.dot Word templates, but just WordprocessingML XML document with predefined document/paragraph/run level properties and styles. Having such template document basically all needs to be done is to fill it
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